Lyle Lovett Quotes
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it."
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The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
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Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
